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All aboard...the EU gravy train
27. Nov 2009 at 23:17

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

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Bertie Ex Member	Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train Reply #1 - 27. Nov 2009 at 23:57 I get a payrise next month if ecp win the contract tender next month.....Then if they dont i have to hope i get kept on with the new company.....
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Nickbat Omega Lord Offline Posts: 7167 London NW7 Gender: Drives: 2002 2.6CD Auto	Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train Reply #2 - 27. Nov 2009 at 23:58 Quote: I get a payrise next month if ecp win the contract tender next month.....Then if they dont i have to hope i get kept on with the new company..... I'm self-employed, so all I face is extra taxation.
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Richie London Omega King Offline A HANDSOME DEVIL OF A MAN!! Posts: 10146 heathrow Gender: Drives: a blinking lovely 2001 2.5 elite auto.	Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train Reply #3 - 28. Nov 2009 at 08:18 Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:58: Quote: I get a payrise next month if ecp win the contract tender next month.....Then if they dont i have to hope i get kept on with the new company..... I'm self-employed, so all I face is extra taxation. ditto
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Martin Imber Over Active Poster Offline LPG Omega V6 - Keyfobs Rebuilt Posts: 20110 Worcester Gender: Drives: 2001 Omega 2.6CD LPG & 3.0 cams	Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train Reply #4 - 28. Nov 2009 at 10:22 That makes Ashtons wages 1/4 of a million Bloody ridiculous Unelected politician Not even an expert Was thick enough to be in CND so what hope does she have in her new job
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Varche Omega Baron Offline Posts: 3860 Andalucia, Spain Gender: Drives: 97 pre mini facelift 3 litre auto RHD Elite saloon and a 2000 Ford Ka !	Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train Reply #5 - 28. Nov 2009 at 10:46 It is the expenses where they make their real dosh. Makes UK politicians look like paupers. Course we mere mortals aren't party to that. V
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Reply #6 - 28. Nov 2009 at 11:02

Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:17:

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

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....another useless puppet appointed by this discredited regime Sad

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Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train
Reply #7 - 28. Nov 2009 at 11:20

Of course the job of foreign minister might appear to be just another job for the boys(girls?) but in reality in the coming years that person will be the one negotiating, on behalf of the member states, our EU position on WAR with the likes of Obama and the Chinese etc.

Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing as the UK would only go to war with the EU rather than at the drop of any hat. Also presumably we would only send our fair share of troops and kit.

Not a job for a puppet or a muppet. It might just work out to the UK's adavantage having a British person in the job.

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Reply #8 - 28. Nov 2009 at 11:57

Varche wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 11:20:

Of course the job of foreign minister might appear to be just another job for the boys(girls?) but in reality in the coming years that person will be the one negotiating, on behalf of the member states, our EU position on WAR with the likes of Obama and the Chinese etc.

Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing as the UK would only go to war with the EU rather than at the drop of any hat. Also presumably we would only send our fair share of troops and kit.

Not a job for a puppet or a muppet. It might just work out to the UK's adavantage having a British person in the job.
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That presupposes of course that the UK has a government capable of performing its task in a proficient way and planning in a strategic manner.

Naturally, by that stage the UK will part of the enhanced EU structure and the capability of the sovereign government to have any real say will be greatly diminished.

Puppets such as Ms Ashton will be incapable of exerting little but the will of the EU. For her and those of like mind Nation has been discarded for the allure this super state.

The EU monster will only thrive by diktat and enforced compliance, so the inconsequential voices presently echoing thought the corridors of this nation’s parliament will fall upon purposefully deafened ears.

To revert to the colloquial – we’ve been done up like a kipper my son Thumbs Up!

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Reply #9 - 28. Nov 2009 at 12:12

Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:17:

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

Angry

And after December 1st, there will be thousands more of them... Roll Eyes

UKIP for me (again! Wink

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............and with the virtually unknown Lord Pearson........replacing the virtually unknown Nigel Farage...........UKIP.....could be a real force to be reckoned with......come the general election... Nick... Roll Eyes

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Reply #10 - 28. Nov 2009 at 12:16

Opti wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 12:12:

Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:17:

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

Angry

And after December 1st, there will be thousands more of them... Roll Eyes

UKIP for me (again! Wink

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............and with the virtually unknown Lord Pearson........replacing the virtually unknown Nigel Farage...........UKIP.....could be a real force to be reckoned with......come the general election... Nick... Roll Eyes

Is it better to know the Devil then Opti? Undecided

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Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train
Reply #11 - 28. Nov 2009 at 14:22

Opti wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 12:12:

Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:17:

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

Angry

And after December 1st, there will be thousands more of them... Roll Eyes

UKIP for me (again! Wink

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............and with the virtually unknown Lord Pearson........replacing the virtually unknown Nigel Farage...........UKIP.....could be a real force to be reckoned with......come the general election... Nick... Roll Eyes

I am, in all sincerity, keen to know your views on the European Superstate (for that is surely what it will be after 1 December). I would have thought that your well-known and respected political stance would unquestionably support more democracy, not less.

Thus you must surely want to quit something that demonstrably reduces democracy. No?

A genuine question. Undecided

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Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train
Reply #12 - 28. Nov 2009 at 14:34

Nickbat wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 14:22:

Opti wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 12:12:

Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:17:

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

Angry

And after December 1st, there will be thousands more of them... Roll Eyes

UKIP for me (again! Wink

)

............and with the virtually unknown Lord Pearson........replacing the virtually unknown Nigel Farage...........UKIP.....could be a real force to be reckoned with......come the general election... Nick... Roll Eyes

I am, in all sincerity, keen to know your views on the European Superstate (for that is surely what it will be after 1 December). I would have thought that your well-known and respected political stance would unquestionably support more democracy, not less.

Thus you must surely want to quit something that demonstrably reduces democracy. No?

A genuine question. Undecided

It is Nick already uniquely known as a Supernation, as that is what it is! Cheesy

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Re: All aboard...the EU gravy train
Reply #13 - 28. Nov 2009 at 14:43

Lizzie Zoom wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 14:34:

Nickbat wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 14:22:

Opti wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 12:12:

Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:17:

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

Angry

And after December 1st, there will be thousands more of them... Roll Eyes

UKIP for me (again! Wink

)

............and with the virtually unknown Lord Pearson........replacing the virtually unknown Nigel Farage...........UKIP.....could be a real force to be reckoned with......come the general election... Nick... Roll Eyes

I am, in all sincerity, keen to know your views on the European Superstate (for that is surely what it will be after 1 December). I would have thought that your well-known and respected political stance would unquestionably support more democracy, not less.

Thus you must surely want to quit something that demonstrably reduces democracy. No?

A genuine question. Undecided

It is Nick already uniquely known as a Supernation, as that is what it is! Cheesy

And I want no part of it. Hence my cessation of support of the Tories (having previously voted for them at every general election and most local elections). Sad

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Reply #14 - 28. Nov 2009 at 16:35

Nickbat wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 14:22:

Opti wrote on 28. Nov 2009 at 12:12:

Nickbat wrote on 27. Nov 2009 at 23:17:

European Union bureaucrats are to get an inflation busting and recession proof pay rise that is over three times the average rate for British workers hit by the economic slump.

Baroness Ashton, the newly appointed EU foreign minister who is also a European Commission vice-president, will pocket an extra £9,000 on top of her basic annual salary of £241,000.

EU officials, who already pay reduced taxes and who are currently demanding free travel on public transport, will get the pay increase, with six months paid retrospectively, in time to celebrate the New Year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6665817/EU-bureaucrats-to-re...

Angry

And after December 1st, there will be thousands more of them... Roll Eyes

UKIP for me (again! Wink

)

............and with the virtually unknown Lord Pearson........replacing the virtually unknown Nigel Farage...........UKIP.....could be a real force to be reckoned with......come the general election... Nick... Roll Eyes

I am, in all sincerity, keen to know your views on the European Superstate (for that is surely what it will be after 1 December). I would have thought that your well-known and respected political stance would unquestionably support more democracy, not less.

Thus you must surely want to quit something that demonstrably reduces democracy. No?

A genuine question. Undecided

Nickbat.......I don't (fully) accept your premise that we will become part of a European Superstate....come 1st December.......I do not see our relationship Roll Eyes

...with Europe in such apocalyptic terms.
However.....I do accept that the European integration of today ...........is a long way from what Ted Heath signed us up to in 1973......so you are correct in one respect.....we need to be on our guard....(but not paranoid Roll Eyes

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With regard to UKIP........I see them as something of an irrelevance....a bit of a "one trick act"....They seem to be insular and inward looking.....not something we need in 2009.........1957 perhaps ....but not 2009.. Thumbs Up!

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